Upcoming events (Victoria Advocate)
VICTORIA GYMAGIC FUN FRIDAY: Fridays, 7-10 p.m., 106-B, West Rio Grande. Cost is $12 per person. Supervised open gym, trampolines, foam pit, double-mini, tumble track, rod tumble floor and cheer floor. For information, call 361-578-4272.

Flying the flag (Weekly Times)
Prime Minister John Howard attended a special ceremony at Denistone on Monday to celebrate St Therese s Catholic School s new flagpole, bought with the help of government funding and from a contribution from the Hayman family.

Perfect pairs (The Comet)
Richard’s Trampoline Club are back on the competition trail. A recent friendly synchro competition in Milton Keynes was their first since the summer.

Public schools open their doors to autism (NorthJersey.com)
The growing number of children identified as autistic — and the steep cost of educating them — is fueling a boom in public school programs. In Bergenfield, a dozen preschool students are attending the inaugural class of the TriValley Academy, a collaborative effort with New Milford and Dumont.

Dylan’s songs dominate in musical ‘Times’ (Los Angeles Daily News)
There’s no law, written or otherwise, that says a person should avoid setting poetry to dance steps or vice versa. And certainly, when you’re a choreographer of the caliber of Twyla Tharp, you establish whatever rules you want and then break them at will.